... correspondent, Three Years with Grant also contains some good reporting about men and events of the Civil War. Cadwallader was an enterprising soul, and his description of the news behind the news makes this as revealing a book as it is interesting. JAY luvaas The French Broad. By Wilma Dykeman. Rivers...

..., the combination of the “NUMSA moment,” the ongoing fracturing of the ANC’s political and ideological hegemony and a renewed militancy among the broad working class in conditions of consistent socioeconomic crisis have opened the doors not just for new labor-community alliances but also for a broad working class...

... cultural modes that privilege genealogical subjects, on the one hand, and, on the other, autological or self-fashioning discourses (to use Elizabeth Povinelli's formulation). In broad terms, genealogical forms operate on various modalities of constraint, operated by community. The promise of liberalism...

... a “murderabilia” auction, we explore the relationship between the public's freedom of inquiry and access to information, on the one hand, and academic freedom of the professoriate, on the other. We argue that the public's broad, yet poorly recognized freedom of inquiry under the First Amendment is in some ways...

... of Pentecostalism as it emerges through a “Protestant lens.” First, I critically discuss the severance of aesthetics and Protestantism, and the concomitant dismissal of “form” in the work of Max Weber. I argue for the need to recapture an understanding of religion as aesthetics, albeit taken in the broad sense...

..., or sociopolitical process has been comparable in terms of democratic radicalism and a broad social spectrum of mobilization. Some have rightly said that a “second transition” has begun, this time liberated from the fear inscribed on bodies after forty years of bloody dictatorship. The struggle against the Franco...

... of nascent communal councils, alongside a proliferation of other directly democratic political and productive organs—has pressed forward. This article situates this communal state at the intersection of two tensions. I first “decolonize” the idea of the Venezuelan commune, excavating the broad contours...

... argues that capitalist dynamics can survive a material influx of the solar energy if more is not done to elaborate a transversal and molecular distribution of excess that solarity as a general condition invites. This discussion provides a starting point for a broad assessment of the nature and status...

.... The essay claims that this generation of migrants from Turkey, together with their counterparts from previous generations, have provided a broad base for the support that current Boğaziçi students and faculty have received during their quest to preserve a democratically run university. It also explores...

...Sam C. Tenorio This article examines the spatially destructive practices of the 2020 BLM protest, which can be thought of in two often overlapping classes: broad property destruction—such as the looting of stores and burning of buildings—and the targeted toppling of monuments. Specifically...

... in the remaining weeks of pregnancy. This decision, more than any other, is the material manifestation of the strategic efforts of a broad sector of Colombian feminism grouped under the slogan Causa Justa (Just Cause). This article briefly presents the history of feminist mobilization around abortion in Colombia...

...Lisa Adkins In a context of wage repression, indebted labor, and a pervasive gap between what labor earns and what it needs to spend, in this essay I ask: what are post-Fordist wages? I suggest that the key features of the post-Fordist wage should be understood in terms of broad transformations...

...Joel Beinin Western policymakers, scholars, and foundations share a broad consensus that a dynamic civil society, often reduced to the presence of NGOs, is the essential ingredient of democracy. Although the concept of civil society is imprecisely and ubiquitously deployed, rendering it of dubious...

... domination was confronted with broad popular resistance, the recent capitulation to old and new dominant elites has become feasible thanks to the new forms of organization of state control that were established with Evo Morales's presidency in 2006 and during subsequent political-economic transformations...

... of assimilating black lives into colonial and apartheid institutions that maintain one of the most unequal and racially toxic societies in the world. We understand the scene of black subjectivity that the students made at the site of the university as a venue for broad political critique. Students’ work...

... and theoretical reasons to examine the complex relationship between finance and extractive infrastructure. We provide a broad description of this relationship, starting from the significance of finance in an analysis of colonial expansion and resource extraction, with an outline of the Canadian context generally...

... demonstrates, this cosmopolitanism was particularly motivated by the Russian Revolution, which for Mariátegui was both a key element in his adherence to Marxism and a powerful vector that led him to internationalize his interests and envisage a broad spectrum of cultural and political phenomena throughout...